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INSIDE THREE ADULTS AND TWO TEENAGERS FROM HAMILTON ARRESTED DURING RAIDS The 24 PAGES TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2018 GREATER HAMILTON $1.40 inc GST DUNKELD Consolidated School students have been getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and cook fresh food as part of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden (SAKG) program. Assisting year four student, Grace Potter, 9, Dunkeld, reap some homegrown vegetables in the garden is friend of the SAKG program, Stacey Balkin. See more inside. Photo: JUDY DE MAN. Do it once, do it right TARA FRY AFTER years of campaigning for road upgrades, Broadwater resident, Jodi Fry said she is concerned the government would continue to ignore the community’s requests until a life was lost on the pothole riddled Woolsthorpe-Heywood Road. Ms Fry was the director of the Roads to Ruin campaign which successfully lobbied to secure $5.3 million in road funding in April 2014, but since this time, has seen little upgrades to the B-Double route road. “Denis Napthine gave us $5.3 million to fix sections of the road, but it was nowhere near enough,” she said. The Broadwater resident has lived on the road for more than 30 years and said most of the 76 kilometre road was single lane and in spots, due to crumbling shoulders, the road was not wide enough to hold a vehicle. “This is a designated B-Double route from Melbourne to Portland, Mount Gambier and Adelaide,” she said. “There are great sections that remain single lane. “The sides of the road are narrowing and the shoulders remain terribly potholed with a massive drop off at the shoulder. “It has been in urgent need of upgrading to a fully double lane road for decades.” Ms Fry said her husband owns a truck cartage business and often found himself in sticky situations as he tried to navigate his heavy vehicle off the side of the road to make way for oncoming traffic. “It’s so dangerous for truck drivers to get off the road in some points because the roadsides are full of potholes or non-existent,” she said. “Because they are often so top heavy, if they hit a bump in the wrong way they could easily roll. “My two sons have had accidents on this road and are lucky to be alive and we have had three cars end up in our paddocks after hitting a pothole and were pushed off the road.” Ms Fry said once a year the road’s shoulders were graded, but the works never lasted more than a week in perfect condition. She said the VicRoads needed to invest in the road, “fix it once and fix it properly”. For years Ms Fry said there had been speed limit restrictions on different parts of the road, leading up to large craters, but this was not a solution. “There has been signs put up that say 80km, but as for any real work, there has been nothing significant for quite some time,” she said. “Will it take a death on the road for them to understand how bad it is?” The farmer said the worst part of the road was the 50km stretch between Austins Hill, Hawkesdale and the Ettrick-Tyrendarra Road corner. Ms Fry started her Roads to Ruin campaign in 2012 and invited then Shadow Minister for Roads and Road Safety, Luke Donnellan, to take a trip in a fully-loaded milk tanker to get a first-hand experience of what truck drivers go through. WEA INSIDE BEV MCARTHUR TO REPLACE SIMON RAMSAY IN WESTERN VICTORIA TODY THER FORECAST A: Cloudy , light winds, max 12 “He was the shadow minister for roads at the time and we sent him down the road in fullyloaded milk tanker so he could meet oncoming traffic and get an understanding of the dangers of driving the road,” she said. “He agreed the road was in poor condition, but since that time there has been minimal work done.” VicRoads regional director south west, Mark Koliba, said the organisation understood how important this road was to locals, and long-term plans were in place to upgrade the road. “We know how important this road is to the locals that use it every day – that’s why we’re planning for long term upgrades to improve the sections that need it most,” he said. “This year, we’re delivering maintenance works on about five kilometres of the WoolsthorpeHeywood Road between Ettrick-Tyrendarra Road and the Princes Highway to protect this section and make it smoother and safer for drivers. Continued: Page 3 WEDNESDY artly cloudyA: P , max 15 180816jd029